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Join us in Warner on March 28 and 29 for The Kearsarge Maple Festival Celebrate the maple season with folks that produce it! Feast on a pancake breakfast with real maple syrup; Try the rare treat of "sugar on snow"; Watch a live demonstration of how the Indians made maple sugar; And visit some of the many area sugar houses for free tours and samples. Watch maple syrup being made and learn the history behind it. Click Here for all the details around town. And on Sunday, March 29 at 3 pm Help us welcome back to Warner Ben Hewitt bestselling author of The Town That Food Saved, Home Grown and Saved, with his latest book, The Nourishing Homestead Being compared to Scott and Helen Nearing's classic The Good Life, Ben and Penny talk here about the nuts and bolts of "practiculture"; growing nutrient-dense foods, producing healthy fats, and living the good life.

We are the booksellers for the 2014 NOFA-NH Winter Conference Saturday-Sunday, Feb 1-2, 2014 Rundlett Middle School Concord, NH Theme: "We Are All Farmers: Seeding Our Common Soil" Book Signing with Keynote Speakers Gary Paul NabhanGrowing food in a hotter, drier land and Food, Genes & Culture

Gary Paul Nabhan is one of the world's experts on the agricultural traditions of arid lands. Because climatic uncertainty has now become "the new normal," many farmers, gardeners and orchard-keepers in North America are desperately seeking ways to adapt their food production to become more resilient in the face of such"global weirding." Ben Hewitt Saved Ben Hewitt is the bestselling author of The Town That Food Saved and Making Supper Safe. Saved is the humorous, surprising, and ultimately life-changing result of Hewitt's quest, a narrative that challenges everything we know about the meaning of money. Jack Lazor Organic Grain Grower And the incomparable Jack Lazor with the ultimate guide to growing organic grains on a small and ecological scale. Plus, these authors will be offering workshops and signing their books: Greg MarleyElizabeth HendersonBen Watson Cole Ward

Join bestselling local author Ben Hewitt for a discussion of how he quit worrying about money and became the richest guy in the world.

When Ben Hewitt met Erik Gillard, he was amazed. Here was a real-life rebel living happily and comfortably in small-town Vermont on less than $10,000 per year. Gillard’s no bum. He has a job, a girlfriend, good friends, and strong ties to the community. But how he lives his life—and why—launches Hewitt on a quest to understand the true role of money and mindless consumerism in our lives. By meeting and befriending people like Erik Gillard, Hewitt realized that their happiness was real. What was he—and the rest of a deeply unhappy population—missing?

Saved is the humorous, surprising, and ultimately life-changing result of Hewitt’s quest, a narrative that challenges everything we know about the meaning of money. Hewitt uses his sharp eye for story, exhaustive reporting, and his own experience living below his means to bring what he learned into an even larger context. How does money really work? How can a bankrupt society move forward? The answers are not what you think, and Hewitt has written an important book for our times.

Ben Hewitt is the bestselling author of The Town That Food Saved and Making Supper Safe. His work has appeared in Wired, The New York Times Magazine, Men’s Journal, Bicycling, and others. He lives in Cabot, VT.

Ben was born and raised in northern Vermont, where he currently runs a small-scale, diversified hill farm with his family. He lives with his wife and two sons in a self-built home that is powered by a windmill and solar photovoltaic panels. To help offset his renewable energy footprint, Ben drives a really big truck. His work has appeared in numerous national periodicals, including the New York Times Magazine, Wired, Gourmet, Discover, Skiing, Eating Well, Yankee Magazine, Powder, Men’s Journal, National Geographic Adventure, and Outside.

The Golden Notebook will be there selling Ben's books!

The event will take place at Andy Lee Field on Rock City Road from 12:00 pm - 5:00 PM.

Barnfest 2013 is free, but you need to sign up! To register, go to Catskill Mountainkeeper!

Location: Street: Andy Lee Field Additional: 0.7 mile west of the Rock City Road/Glasco intersection City: Woodstock, Province: New York Postal Code: 12498 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

When Ben Hewitt met Erik Gillard, he was amazed. Here was a real-life rebel living happily and comfortably in small-town Vermont on less than $10,000 per year. Gillard’s no bum. He has a job, a girlfriend, good friends, and strong ties to the community. But how he lives his life—and why—launches Hewitt on a quest to understand the true role of money and mindless consumerism in our lives. By meeting and befriending people like Erik Gillard, Hewitt realized that their happiness was real. What was he—and the rest of a deeply unhappy population—missing?

Saved is the humorous, surprising, and ultimately life-changing result of Hewitt’s quest, a narrative that challenges everything we know about the meaning of money. Hewitt uses his sharp eye for story, exhaustive reporting, and his own experience living below his means to bring what he learned into an even larger context. How does money really work? How can a bankrupt society move forward? The answers are not what you think, and Hewitt has written an important book for our times.

About the author: Ben Hewitt is the bestselling author of The Town That Food Saved and Making Supper Safe. His work has appeared in Wired, The New York Times Magazine, Men’s Journal, Bicycling, and others. He lives in Cabot, VT.